*Ranked in order of land use as a percentage of potential arable land.

1 Land presently cultivated per caput of total population.

2 Areas that are suitable for cultivation in terms of soil suitability and
availability of water (rainfall or irrigation). Includes lands currently under forest or
wetlands which are protected and not available for agriculture.

Table 16. Summary of tariff commitments made by LDCs
under the Agreement on Agriculture

Average rate of :

Average applied tariff rate 2

Country

Bound tariffs 1 (%)

ODCs 1

Africa:

Angola

55 3

0.1

..

Benin

60 3

19

13

Burkina Faso

100

50

33

Burundi

100

30

..

Cent. Africa Rep.

30

16

..

Chad

80

..

..

Dem. Rep. of the Congo

55 3

0.1

..

Djibouti

40 3

100

..

Gambia

110 3

10

..

Guinea

40

23 3

16.65

Guinea-Bissau

40

25 3

..

Lesotho

200

..

..

Madagascar

30

250

..

Malawi

125

0

..

Mali

60

50

27.65

Mauritania

25 3

15

..

Mozambique

100 3

300

..

Niger

50 3

50

..

Rwanda

80

..

..

Sierra Leone

40 3

20 3

..

Togo

80

7

17

Uganda

80 3

..

21

United Republic of Tanzania

120

120

16.2 6

Zambia

125 3

..

24

Asia

Bangladesh

200 3

30

7.5-60 (range)

Maldives

30 3

1

..

Myanmar

84 4

..

..

Solomon Islands

80 3

35.6

Latin America and the Caribbean

Haiti

21 4

16 4

..

1 Tariff bindings and other duties and charges (ODCs) are uniform for all
items, except where otherwise indicated. (Source: Notifications to WTO).

2 Taken from the latest Trade Policy Reviews of the respective
countries and from Kent, Wilcock and Gwynn (1997), Likely Impact of the GATT
Agricultural Agreement on African Agricultural Trade and Development, ARAP II Research
Report No. 1024, USAID.

3 Rateapplied to most agricultural products.

4 Simple average of all agricultural tariff lines.

5 As a member of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) is
moving towards the Common External Tariff of 10 % or 20 % on agricultural products.